Ben Schwartz Quotes

When I got to high school, I was going to do sports, but I got kicked off the volleyball team because I kept missing it for musical theater.

In high school, driver's ed was at the same time as drama class. And I had to take drama class. Now I can sing the lead in 'Oklahoma!,' but I can't drive.

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

I swam in high school.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

We are not able to sacrifice our short term interests for the sake of the long term.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.

When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.

I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in high school, I joined chamber choir. I wanted to do musical theater, too, but they had rehearsals at the same time. That was a bit of 'Sophie's Choice.'

When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.

Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.